Re: Epson Stylus C82 "Printer not connected", nothing prints

[tjm3]

Ruchira Datta wrote:

I have a Debian Gnu/Linux 3.0 box, dual boot with Windows 2000, on which
I'm running Cups v. 1.1.15 with gimp-print v. 4.2.5.  When I add my
Epson Stylus C82, it claims to have added it successfully.  The
connection was through "Parallel Port #1 (Epson Stylus C82)", since when
I booted the parport module had detected my printer:
dmesg said

parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus C82
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready

If I say ls -l /dev/lp0 I get

crw-rw-rw-    1 root     lp         6,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/lp0

The CUPS admin claims the Printer State is

 Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.

and the printer is connected through

 Device URI: parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0

But whenever I try to print a test page, first it says

"Printing page 0, 7%"

then eventually it says

"Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..."

This never changes and nothing ever gets printed.  Furthermore, nothing
happens if I say

echo "stuff" > /dev/lp0

although I don't know if I should expect it to.  I know it is not the
case that the printer actually is not connected, since whenever I reboot
to Windows I can print everything just fine.

ADVthanksANCE,

Ruchira Datta
datta at math dot berkeley dot edu

I have one of these C82's running successfully on Debian 3.0. I
am using the USB port and the drivers from Epson, found here:

http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html

There is a driver here for CUPS and one for LPR. My setup
uses the LPR driver.



tony


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